William Knight

William Knight (1475-1547) was Secretary of State to Henry VIII of England and Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Biography
William Knight was born in London, England in 1475, and he entered Winchester School as a scholar in 1487 before proceeding to attend New College, Oxford in 1491, becoming a fellow two years later. In 1495, he went to court, where King Henry VII of England made him one of his secretaries. He was frequently employed as an ambassador by King Henry VIII of England, and he was sent to Rome in 1527 to try to get Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. He rebuilt Horton Court in Gloucestershire using ideas from Italian architecture, and he would become Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1541. He died in Wiveliscombe, Somerset in 1547.